[Taxacom] Herb from Kashmir for ID

[Dr Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks a lot Dr. Bruno and Dr. Malecot for identifying it as Sanguisorba
minor.


-- 
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College
University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018
Phone: 01125518297; Mobile: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/



On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Wallnöfer Bruno <
bruno.wallnoefer at nhm-wien.ac.at> wrote:

> This is Sanguisorba minor (Rosaceae)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> BW
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> Von: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:
> taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] Im Auftrag von Dr Gurcharan Singh
> Gesendet: Montag, 09. Juli 2012 13:37
> An: krishana.kaushik007 at gmail.com; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Betreff: Re: [Taxacom] Herb from Kashmir for ID
>
> It seems my photographs to the Group did not get through, although I had
> reduced it to the acceptable size. I am providing the link to  my album for
> those who can help me to identify this herb.
>
> http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/583079633GKeRBm
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> Retired Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College
> University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018
> Phone: 01125518297; Mobile: 9810359089
> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Dr Gurcharan Singh <singhg at sify.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Krishana Kaushik and David Boulford
> >
> > They were in the original message. I am forwarding again.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> > Retired Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College
> > University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
> > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018
> > Phone: 01125518297; Mobile: 9810359089
> > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Dr Gurcharan Singh <singhg at sify.com>
> > Date: Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:53 PM
> > Subject: Herb from Kashmir for ID
> > To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> >
> >
> > Dear members
> >  This elusive herb I photographed from open hillside above Cheshma Shahi
> > in Kashmir in May. The plant barely up to 80 cm tall had alternate
> pinnate
> > compound leaves up to 12 cm long, with deeply toothed leaflets, 9-13 in
> > number, with two stipules at base, toothed like leaflets. Flowers
> > unisexual, on long peduncles, forming separate globose heads; male
> flowers
> > with four broadly ovate to nearly orbicular perianth 3-5 mm long,
> greenish
> > white with membranous margin, stamens numerous hanging; female flowers
> with
> > seemingly 4 perianth, appearing three in some, green with membranous
> > margin, persistent; fruits of apparantly four nutlets, fused along raised
> > margin.
> >     I am not able to even identify the family, which initially I thought
> > to be Urticaceae, but four nutlets are confusing me. Could you kindly
> > provide a clue.
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> > Retired Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College
> > University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
> > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018
> > Phone: 01125518297; Mobile: 9810359089
> > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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